Essay on Gardens
Subtitle: A Chapter in the French Picturesque (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780812237221
Subjects: Gardening; Picturesque, The; Gardens; France; Gardening / Horticulture; Literary Criticism; Landscape; Gardens, French; Garden Design; Architecture / Landscape; Landscape art & architecture; Early works to 1800; General
First sentence: If, under the influence of their passions, men forsake the gentle pleasures of a tranquil existence, they also come to yearn, through an irresistible urge, for the peace and quiet that they have sacrificed.